Peter Armitage (statistician)
Peter Armitage CBE (15 June 1924 – 14 February 2024) was a British statistician who specialised in medical statistics.He joined the weapons procurement agency, the Ministry of Supply where he worked on statistical problems with George Barnard.After the war he resumed his studies and then worked as a statistician for the Medical Research Council from 1947 to 1961.[1] From 1961 to 1976, he was Professor of Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where he succeeded Austin Bradford Hill.Armitage lived in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, and died on 14 February 2024, at the age of 99.